Sue Pavlovich Australia

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Sue Pavlovich is a convenor of sociality. To her the exhibition is a construction of memories by the participant, and the built environment of the artworks are the agents which inspire memories to arise. She is an Australian with international practice links. Commitment to sociality links her art practice, in roles as an artist, art educator, curator and active developer of artist led spaces.

Sue Pavlovich’s work opens up references to ‘slow sociality’, in its relationship between observer and participant through a subtle entanglement with art located in action. In leading the participant in discovery, her work subvertively challenges the position of the artist and the formal site of a gallery. Engagement and observation of the private and public self within a socially constructed space. Her installation work places the audience as both observer and participant. For example, to participate by covering oneself in a provided cloth object is to cross the liminal bound of the gallery and surrender part of the sensory apparatus of the body. By doing so, the participant's visual and audible perception is dramatically altered. At times movement is limited, while other senses such as touch are heightened. This altered awareness, familiar in early childhood play or meditative stillness, opens up states of reflectiveness, half-forgotten dreams or memory; a psychological space common to us all.